I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better. — Stephanie S. Tolan Copy Share Image
“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“Her (Jane Austen) moral message is infused with ideological insistence on the merits of good conduct, good manners, sound reason, and marriage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the moral of this natural occurrence, is that we are all born to find and fix our own shortcomings;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“not because the moral law enjoins unselfishness, but because, given the society in which they live, it is the way in which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want… — Billy Carter Copy Share Image
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings. — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death. — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
